Yahoo Exec Souders To Google; Yahoo to Zero?

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4 pointsraghus4 comments

This is a pretty big loss to Yahoo. Steve's an amazing engineer and he led the performance team at Yahoo. He just released an excellent book on performance as well. He invented a ton of techniques on how to optimize the front and back-end performance of web apps. His team also created YSlow and they're actively supporting/working on Firebug.

Yahoo has released so much useful stuff and Steve and his team have been extremely generous. I hope this continues as he moves to Google.

But if his talent was going to waste at Yahoo, isn't it better for everyone that he's somewhere that can use him?

Yahoo has business problems, not technical ones.

Do they even need this guy? He is a performance specialist.

In any mid-size to large programming company, very very few of its engineers will know anything about web performance. They don't teach it in school and (until now) you couldn't learn this stuff from a book.

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